Needle in a haystack (Fallen/open)

[BD]

Kite looked out at the sea ports,"The tip line still isn't picking up anything, realistically we're searching for a needle in a haystack."

[Fallen]

Marianna looked at Kite and back at the sea ports as the man made his comment. His thoughts were along the lines of her own, We're never going to find him at this rate.

"Where would Ferus be?" She asked, a bit perplexed. "He could be anywhere by now." Marianna continued to look out among the sea ports and surrounding city, though how futile the attempt seemed, she couldn't sit around and do nothing.

[BD]

"Damnit!" Kite slammed his fist into a wall,"Wait...look out at that ship..." Kite pointed at a small ship sitting alone on a deserted area of the water,"Those waters are hard to get too, and it's the only ship there, i'm going to guess that's got something interesting on it..."

[Fallen]

Marianna smiled and ruffled Kite's hair, "Your so smart." Her voice was light and amused, and her eyes shone with affection at the man.

"Alright, let's go! We're not gonna learn anything by standing here." She began walking down to the docks, quickly finding a graying fisherman with a small dingy and, with enough gold exchanging hands, agreed to take them out to the lone ship.

[BD]

Kite looked from the boat at the ship, suddenly he looked alarmed,"Shit...It's alot worse than I expected, not just Ferus, but there's some heavily armored guards and some people in the shadows..."

[Fallen]

Marianna looked closer at the boat and spotted the guards and hidden passengers.

"We're gonna have to be careful, then." She sounded grim despite the amused smile on her face. Sneaking up on a lone ship in a deserted area of water is impossible, especially by boat. If we swam though.. maybe.

[BD]

"Wait a minute,we only have two options for getting to that boat, either swim, or bring the boat over and get arrested..." Kite said, he pulled his swimsuit out of his inventory and took a look ahead,"That's about 3,00 feet to swim against the current, can you handle it...?"

[Fallen]

Marianna giggled and whistled loudly, though not loud enough to draw the boat's attention. A few moments later a largish sea turtle popped up from under the water and stared at her. She quickly got out her wet suit from her inventory and put it on, adjusting her breather.

She climbed onto the turtle and it slowly lowered into the water, and after a brief yet bright flash of energy a PM popped up in Kite's inbox.

I'm ready. Let's go! And with that, the turtle began to swim toward the boat, though a bit slow it was easily pushing through the moderately strong ocean current.

[BD]

Alright, we can't talk when we get to the ship, so PMs only for now.

Kite sent as he finished diving in, he actually kept up with the turtle.

[Fallen]

Alright, she wrote back as they continued to swim. Along the way there was a plethora of multi-colored fish swimming about.

As they neared the ship Marianna began swimming on her own, patting the turtle affectionately before it swam away.

Shall we? She wrote quickly as she got out of the water, looking up but finding relief at having not been seen.. yet. She quickly began climbing a loose mooring line hanging from the side, hoping Kite would either follow her example or find his own way in.

[BD]

Let's Kite said pulling the rope and easily jumping up, he reached his hand out to grab Marianna.

[Fallen]

Marianna grabbed Kite's hand and silently slipped onto the deck. She quickly moved behind a group of powder barrels for cover, quickly stringing her bow and nocking an arrow. She stuck two more in the deck and cautiously peered over the barrel.

Two guards were standing on the far side of the boat and were apparently deep in conversation, as they had not seen them.

What do we do? Marianna quickly PMed Kite, wondering if killing them would be easier then detaining them.

[BD]

Killing them would be quieter, but I've sent for backup so our cover will be blown eventually... I have an idea, come over to this side quickly. Kite pm-ed motioning to an are behind some food crates.

[Fallen]

Marianna nodded and waited patiently for the two to turn around before rolling to Kite's position.

Okay, now what? she asked Kite, still fingering her nocked arrow tensely.